Greg Mayman (3:800/449) wrote to Steven Horn at 09:36 on 12 May 2003:

 GM> Same here. But I don't expect the author to deny its
 GM> deficiencies.

But are they program deficiencies or what?  The author may simply not be
aware of the problem.

 GM> Glenn McCorkle is currently working on the next version, and I
 GM> assume will be working on other versions after that. If the
 GM> software has no "faults" why is he doing that?

To improve the product?  It may be impossible to achieve perfection in the
first release.

 GM> Most people would be quite happy with a statement such as "This
 GM> software isn't quite perfect, but it is free and we're still
 GM> working on making it better."

Who wants to admit faults?:-)

 GM> What I DO object to is the statement that when the internal
 GM> functions don't work, it is "not a fault."

I'm always forgiving of authors of freeware.

 GM> Some of the suggested solutions implied that I would have to log
 GM> off and log on again with another FTP client, as indeed I was
 GM> having to do with Arachne and CuteFTP.

That solution does not make sense to me.  Even if you had to log off from
the browser, could you not log on with another program without
disconnecting? 

 GM> Since this cost me an extra local phone call fee, I preferred not
 GM> to go this way, especially when I needed to do offline testing, as
 GM> was occasionally the case.

We don't pay local call fees here.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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